Chris Strouth kidney saga lands a spot on Twitter's Stories of the Year

One of the most inspiring local stories of the year came as a result of a Twitter exchange between Chris Strouth, local musician/filmmaker/producer and a man called Scott Pakudaitis who gave him his kidney. The story got a significant local coverage, and now it's getting the national recognition it deserves. Chris's story is currently featured on Twitter Stories, a new website about people who have used Twitter in an interesting way.

Do you remember how it all started? With a single tweet saying: "Sh*t, I need a kidney."


Via @caerickson
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CONvergence Tweet Roundup

Annual geekfest, CONvergence, kicked off Thursday and nerds are already going crazy on Twitter. We've rounded up a few highlights thus far, and we expect (no, we KNOW) that things will only get more outrageous throughout the rest of the weekend. Follow the hashtag #CVG2011 to keep up with all the hilarious shenanigans.

Jeremy Messersmith's Ira Glass "costume" is a hit. Speaking of Jeremy, did you read the Vita.mn cover story about his weekly D&D game? It's pretty awesome.


Yep. The sky's the limit at #cvg2011! Check out the schedule here.


They have breakfast at Dairy Queen?


Yes, the theme of this year's CONvergence revolves around steampunk.


@carr2d2 can't wait to eat some free rice in the CONsuite.


We completely concur. Read about the time we freak danced a storm trooper at our first trip to CONvergence here.


We bet a Klingon did that.


We can already tell Scrimshaw's tweets from Con are going to be good.


CONvergence dance parties are always epic.


We'd expect nothing less. Over 5000 nerds will be all up in the Sheraton this weekend.


One of the best party rooms of CONvergence got placed on the 4th floor this year. Stop in for a Pimm's Cup!

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Super Bowl Twitter roundup

A lot of you watched the Super Bowl, or didn't watch it. Either way, you had some pretty funny/entertaining things to say. Here's a roundup of the most LOL/OMG-worthy:

Yes, Black Eyed Peas covered classic GNR. We disapprove.

We would LOVE to see that. (And no, we're not talking about the stage.)

Totally.

That would have been pretty awesome. (And fitting, considering all the flubs and technical difficulties of this year's show.)

We want some!

We were thinking the same thing. OMG. She totally upstaged Usher.

Genius. That pretty much sums it up.

We thought so too. Hope they got real paid.

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!!!

Can't believe it's the first for LOL/OMG contributor @marrina.

I totally hung out with his big sister in junior high.

You have a point there.

That was too good!

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Jeremy Messersmith wants to buy tickets to his own show

It's true, see for yourself!

You can see the "infamous" ad here.

Will he or will he not buy the tickets?? Follow Jeremy here to find out.

Submitted by @marrina.

Worst. Date. Ever.

Girl goes on a date with a guy. He says things. She tweets about it. Hilarity ensues:










Via @vruno.

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Transmission moves to the Mainroom - one night only!

DJ Jake Rudh announced something fun via Twitter today:


We're crossing our fingers for an old school Sunday Night Dance Party-style bash. Maybe Jake will even take our requests for Lush, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Cure, etc via a clipboard up by the sound booth (does anyone else remember that???)

Baby, it's cold outside

Yes, we said it. What are we supposed to do? Not complain that it's minus gazillion degrees outside? We're not alone in this, pretty much everybody is over winter:


MPR NewsCut staffer Bob Collins tries the hot water test with some interesting substances.

Hey, but at least we had a gorgeous sunrise this morning. Photo by @natefanderson: